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...superiority of the game over American football is shown by the fact that it contains all the essentials of a true sport; the best of healthy out-door exercise, the greatest enjoyment to the players during the entire season as well as during the contests, the tremendous interest of the spectators, all of whom can appreciate the fine points of this game. Forty thousand people attend an American football game. Of these, the students and perhaps half the others understand the science of the sport. What do the rest come for? One who sees a well-played soccer game...
...except the arms and hands, which makes skillful use of the head and of both feet necessary. When the scientific control of the ball has been mastered, soccer offers more attraction both to the players themselves and to the spectators than a game in which the essentials of true sport are lacking...
...reason that the present day American college student knows so little about the game is that it is not the sport taken up by the small boy as soon as he is able to play any game. The recent adoption of the game by the public schools of Boston, whose example is being followed even by some of the boarding schools, however, assures Harvard an ever increasing quantity of men who have already mastered the rudiments...
...agree with the writer of the communication that association football "possesses all the essentials of a true sport." In addition, the game certainly offers men without previous experience or special bodily endowments, an unrivaled opportunity for healthful exertion and real enjoyment. This opportunity should appeal particularly to that large group of men who, for divers reasons, get no regular exercise...
This action is certainly worthy of commendation. Too often intense rivalry and a keen desire to win combine to deprive contests of all sportsmanship. Such a condition cannot fall to be detrimental to the best interests of sport and is apt to prove fatal to the fundamental purpose of athletic rivalry--the encouragement and furtherance of pleasant personal relations between different colleges...